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			<h1>The <code>//cg.</code>, <code>//cv.</code>, and <code>//onion.</code> <abbr title="Top Level Domain">TLD</abbr>s</h1>
			<p>Day 00206: Tuesday, 2015 September 29</p>
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	Instead of working on more urgent matters (read: &quot;instead of working on filing my taxes or writing my resume&quot;), I did more research on top-level domains.
	I found that both the <a href="/en/URI_research/ccTLDs.xhtml#cg">Republic of the Congo</a> and the <a href="/en/URI_research/ccTLDs.xhtml#dj">Republic of Djibouti</a> run registries that allow registration without having completely-unrelated telephony services set up.
	I&apos;ve potentially found a third registry too, that of the <a href="/en/URI_research/ccTLDs.xhtml#cv">Republic of Cabo Verde</a>.
	Their system is set up sort of wonky though, so I don&apos;t actually know if registration is possible.
	After giving them your information, they give you a &quot;Nic-Handle&quot;.
	You then enter this Nic-Handle into another form, and they supposedly send you instructions via email for acquiring a user name used to log in and register domains.
	I did all that, but they have yet to send the instructions.
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	It has also come to my attention that <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">IANA</abbr> has <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/?include_text=1">set aside the <code>onion</code> <abbr title="Top Level Domain">TLD</abbr></a> as a <a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml">special-use domain name</a>.
	From a technical standpoint, this should make onion address leaking less common.
	From a non-technical standpoint, this makes onion addresses actually valid, or at least as valid as <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761"><code>localhost</code></a> and especially <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762">multicast <abbr title="Domain Name System">DNS</abbr> (<code>local</code>) addresses</a>.
	It appears that this designation for the <code>onion</code> <abbr title="Top Level Domain">TLD</abbr> is still in draft form, but I think it&apos;s time to quit generating goofy onion addresses related to this domain and instead try generating a more meaningful onion address.
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